R.I.P. Scout26
Well, there goes the price of gas shooting up. Probably a lot more things.Let's go Xi!
BBC News has seen examples of some images with lists of demands being sent around social media. Some of the demands include calls to: Abolish pandemic monitoring measures such as mandatory mass testing and digital health codes for work and travel Reverse the policy of closing schools, restaurants, shops or other businesses in the name of preventing Covid spreading Correctly publicize the danger of the virus "without exaggeration or alarmist talk" Apologise for "unreasonable" and "unscientific" epidemic prevention strategies Investigate and prosecute local government officials, testing companies and others involved in Covid restrictions over allegations of corruption, negligence and abuse of power
Maybe not. Oil is responding as if this is a threat to stability of China's demand, which is causing the price to drop. China is an oil consumer, not a producer.
Dozens of districts in Shanghai and Guangzhou, cities that have seen rising cases, were released from lockdown measures on Thursday.The country's vice-premier also announced that the country was facing a "new situation".
It comes as one of China's most senior pandemic officials, vice-premier Sun Chunlan, said the virus' ability to cause disease was weakening.
Honestly, I see few if any talking about COVID deaths anymore. At some point (in 2021?), they switched over to tracking "cases" instead.
Protests in China have attracted international attention as the greatest challenge of President Xi Jinping’s premiership and a major knock to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) longstanding authority. But their spread within China was partially hobbled by a key change in Apple’s AirDrop feature, launched just weeks before the unrest. AirDrop, which allows users to share content between Apple devices, has become an important tool in protestors’ efforts to circumvent authoritarian censorship regimes over recent years. […] However, it was limited earlier this month, when a Nov. 9 update to Apple’s global operating system, iOS 16.1.1, included an additional AirDrop feature applying only to iPhones sold in mainland China.